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Rupture
Some 3,100 years ago, complex crises are credited with the collapse of Bronze Age civilizations across the eastern Mediterranean within a single lifetime. That rupture ushered in four centuries of de-development, where people even forgot how to read and write. As a result, that dark period produced no records where those civilizations fell.
Three millennia later,
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Domicide Dimensions of Genocide
The legal definition of genocide has become common knowledge as an outcome of Israel’s escalated genocide in Palestine since October 2023. In particular, the public understands that the “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such” includes “Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical
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Land Grabbing and the Prolonged Conflict in Sudan
For decades, Sudan has been subjected to successive conflicts and political instability amid internal and extraterritorial competition over its natural resources, particularly though coercive land seizures. Since the outbreak of the latest civil war in 2023 between the Sudanese Army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) backed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) government, the conflict has caused the largest
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Cities as a Factor of Gender Inequality
Urban inequalities constitute one of the central features of the contemporary globalized world and are expressed in unequal enjoyment of housing, basic services, and the infrastructures that sustain daily life. The processes of land financialization and housing commodification have transformed cities into spaces of economic accumulation, intensifying socio-spatial segregation in both the Global North and South.
From a feminist perspective, the
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Palestine/Israel: Why Target Olive Trees?
Palestine/Israel: Why Target Olive Trees Specifically?
The first initiatives to form the Zionist movement began in the mid-19th century, instigated by French and British colonial powers seeking to establish a Jewish state in Palestine. Their aim was to control the resources of the Arab region and its surroundings by fragmenting it and creating internal conflicts, thus keeping it weak, divided, and dependent
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Members Norm Setting on Land and Conflict
An intended good practice within HIC is often found in the collaboration of Member organizations that synergizes efforts to produce values and outcomes greater than the sum of their parts. One expression of such collaboration is the recent joint submission of input to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) draft General
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HIC @ 50: Advancing Norms
The year 2026 marks the 50th anniversary of Habitat International Coalition, founded at the first UN Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat I), Vancouver, B.C., in 1976. This half-century journey culminates now in a celebration of global solidarity and a redoubled commitment to continue the work needed toward realizing a human rights habitat, beginning with the core struggle for adequate housing
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Fakhri’s Food Focus on Land
The Special Rapporteur on the right to food Michael Fakhri begins his final report to the Human Rights Council’s 61st session by paraphrasing Mahmoud Darwish: “On the land is where we find what makes life worth living.”
However, he observes that, like during the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009, corporations and financial investors are turning their attention to large land acquisitions
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Ground-breaking Land-tenure Data Revealed
After much anticipation around FAO, the agency’s Global Land Observatory (GLO) has finally published the findings of its joint study with International Land Coalition and on the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD): The Status of Land Tenure and Governance. Launched at the ICARRD+20 conference at Cartagena de Indias on 25 February 2026, it reveals that only 35%
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HIC Delegation Engagement at ICARRD+20
The International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development +20 (ICARRD+20), held in Cartagena, Colombia in February 2026, marked the 20th anniversary of the landmark 2006 conference on agrarian reform. This event brought together governments, academics, international organizations, and civil society movements to evaluate progress toward more-equitable land governance and rural development. The Habitat International Coalition (HIC) delegation participated actively,
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Approaching Remedy for Loss and Damage
The Fund for responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) is inching its way toward becoming a source of remedy for harm induced by climate change. The 7th meeting of its 26-member Board (B7) at Manila last October 2025 produced key decisions toward operationalizing the start-up phase plan, a.k.a. the Barbados Implementation Modalities (BIM). That phase will take place with the
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Achieving Housing and Land Policy Coherence in Uganda
Ugandan civil society has demonstrated how to cooperate with various spheres of government to co-produce housing and land policy. Shelter and Settlements Alternatives (SSA) organized a technical workshop in Kampala, from 2 to 6 February 2026, with the support of Rooftops Canada and Global Affairs Canada (GAC), under the theme: “Public Policy Partnership: Realizing the Human Right to Adequate Housing
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Digitalization Dangers
In his final report to the UN Human Rights Council, the Special Rapporteur on the right to food Michael Fakhri observed: “Land-related digitalization processes are not generally embedded in human rights. As a result, thus far, digitalization is reproducing, consolidating and even exacerbating existing forms of exclusion and marginalization.” This warning nonetheless encourages further inquiry.
The most ambitious example of collection
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